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    Amazon fires, State pension, American burgers

    Are forest fires in Brazil the worst in recent times? What is the state pension worth?

  2. Exam grades, Chernobyl, Ethiopian trees

    Was your A-level grade correct? Plus were 350m trees planted in one day in Ethiopia?

  3. Are married women flipping miserable?

    Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?

  4. Hay Festival Special

    What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?

  5. Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

    The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.

  6. Heart deaths, organised crime and gender data gaps

    Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women.

  7. Sex, coal, missing people and mice

    Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)

  8. Nurses, flatmates and cats

    We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing.

  9. Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

    Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?

  10. Climate change, Victorian diseases, Alcohol

    Tim Harford on climate change, Victorian diseases, maths mistakes and alcohol consumption.

  11. Teen suicide, Brexit business moves, Wood-burner pollution

    Tim Harford on teen suicide, Brexit business moves and wood-burner pollution

  12. Holocaust deniers, Venezuelan hyperinflation, Tinder likes

    Tim Harford on Holocaust deniers, food prices in Venezuela and dating app statistics.

  13. Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall

    Tim Harford on domestic violence, employment numbers, and the chance of a white Easter.

  14. Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle

    Tim Harford asks whether 1.7% of people are intersex, and examines false claims about MPs.

  15. Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets

    Tim Harford on sugar, train fares, children's outdoors play and Earth's closest neighbour.

  16. Loneliness, School funding, Same-sex divorce

    Tim Harford on a 大象传媒 loneliness survey, school funding, same-sex divorce, loyal listeners.

  17. Surviving the Battle of Britain, The World Cup and domestic violence, Buckfast and arrests in Scotland

    Tim Harford on Spitfire pilots, and whether football triggers violence in the home.

  18. How many schoolchildren are carers? Counting shareholder income, Museum visitors vs football fans

    Tim Harford on child carers, shareholder income, football, museums and dangerous sports.

  19. Male suicide, School ratings, Are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?

    Tim Harford on what statistics tell us about suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis.

  20. Heart age calculator; Danish sperm imports; The size of the services sector; The 'safest car on the road'; Counting goats.

    Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.

  21. African trade tariffs, Alcohol safe limits, President Trump's popularity

    Tim Harford fact-checks EU trade deals with Africa, and whether one drink is one too many.

  22. A no-frills life, automated fact-checking, Lord of the Rings maths

    Tim Harford on no-frills living, automated fact-checking and Lord of the Rings maths.

  23. How to Reduce Exam Revision with Maths, Infant Mortality, London's Murder Rate

    Tim Harford explains how maths can help lazy students reduce their revision workload.

  24. The high street, Home births, Harry Potter wizardry

    Is WH Smith really the worst on the high street? Plus how safe is giving birth at home?

  25. Forecasting rain, Teabags, Voter ID trials

    How to read the weather forecast, plus measuring the amount of tea we drink.

  26. Child poverty, Progress 8, How green is grass?

    Are more working families in poverty? Plus exploring the new school league tables.

  27. Abortion, Modern slavery, Math versus maths

    The British abortion statistics gaining attention in Ireland's referendum debate.

  28. Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms

    Calculating the benefits and risks of breast screening. Plus, patchy citizenship data.

  29. Straws, Women on boards, Animals born each day

    Measuring plastic pollution, female FTSE directors and counting animal offspring.

  30. UN rape claims, Stalin, Mr Darcy

    Back of the envelope calculations on rape, and how many died under Stalin?

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